Jean Maridor, DFC (24 November 1920 – 3 August 1944) was a French-born pilot with the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War.

He destroyed several V-1s, and was killed on 3 August when attempting to prevent one from landing on a military hospital in the village of Benenden, in Kent.

He joined the Armée de l'Air (French Air Force) in May 1939 and had gained his wings by the time of the outbreak of the Second World War.

Making his way to Biarritz, he found passage to the United Kingdom aboard a fishing vessel and joined the Royal Air Force (RAF).

615 Squadron spent several months based at Valley, the RAF station on Anglesey where it carried out monotonous patrols over the Irish Sea and covered shipping convoys.

In the autumn of 1941, it went on the offensive, relocating to Manston and flying sorties to France and Belgium to attack targets of opportunity.

[1] In the winter months, in resumed patrolling duties over the Irish Sea and also, being based at Angle, the Bristol Channel.

[1] His new unit was based at Hawkinge and operated the Supermarine Spitfire Mk Vb fighter on sorties and sweeps to France and Belgium.

The squadron's activities was now largely based around flying bomber escort missions and attacking shipping, work which escalated as the invasion of Normandy approached.

Realising that it was about to fall on Benenden School, at the time a military hospital, he intercepted it at close range and destroyed it with cannon fire.

[1][4][6] Originally buried near London, after the war Maridor's remains were re-interred at the Sainte-Marie cemetery, in Le Havre.